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Management troubles! Foolish business decisions! Still no monetization platform of note! All of this is old news about Twitter, but it seems as though reports about these issues have been proliferating lately, both in volume and in detail. The latest barrage started with an article describing the co...

After a long period of unfulfilled hype, there finally appears to be some real momentum behind a nationwide movement to electronic medical records -- and that's just one of a series of recent developments that have caused me to change my attitude about online privacy. Over the years, I've gone to gr...

Reviews for RIM's new PlayBook tablet have hit the Web, and so far, they are not good. The company's first tablet, the PlayBook will hit stores on April 19, ranging in cost from $499 to $699. The PlayBook was intended to be a worthy iPad 2 rival, but according to countless reviews, the PlayBook does...

This week Cisco pulled the plug on the Flip camera, a pocket-sized video camera. It was an abrupt and surprising reversal, given the popularity of the camera and the fact that Cisco acquired it from Pure Digital just a few years ago for $590 million. Cisco's explanation: It is realigning its operat...

Suddenly, mHealth is very visible in the wireless industry. At the CTIA show a few weeks ago in Orlando, there were many companies up and down the aisles from every corner of the industry. They were trying to capture the attention of the attendees, who were mesmerized by all the bright lights and co...

Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced an Internet privacy bill on Tuesday that proposes new rules about how websites can collect information about users. The measures would help protect Internet users by requiring sites to notify customers when their data is being collec...

Courts and regulators have recently made life more complicated for Google, impacting millions of Google users worldwide. Notwithstanding Google's $29 billion revenue performance in 2010, new challenges continue to plague the company. As you may know, Google planned to digitize millions of books. In ...

More legal trouble could be in the cards for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Old pal Paul Ceglia claims he's entitled to half the company in exchange for $1,000 funding he provided in 2003. Ceglia sued Zuckerberg last July, and in the weeks following the suit he presented a contract bearing Zuckerberg...

Government reform initiatives are frequently long on saying, and short on doing. White papers and strategic plans are the stuff of good intentions, but actual implementation is often elusive. The ambitious goal of the Obama administration to improve information technology management and procurement ...

Sony Entertainment has reached a settlement with George Hotz, aka "GeoHot," the hacker who jailbroke Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console. The settlement was reached on March 31, according to a Sony blog post. The terms were not fully disclosed, but Hotz has apparently agreed to a permanent injunctio...

Level 3 has announced plans to buy Global Crossing for $3 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Level 3 will also assume Global Crossing's $1.1 billion debt. This transaction creates a company with pro forma combined 2010 revenues of $6.26 billion, the companies said. The merging of the two comp...

The PC is not yet in danger of becoming extinct, but its position as the primary computing device in most people's lives could soon be threatened by the tablet. Several analyst firms have recalculated their 2011 PC sales projections after noticing a trend in which more consumers are passing on PC p...

Time Warner Cable and Viacom are countersuing each other over whether Time Warner Cable has the right to live stream Viacom content to its Apple iPad app, which it released in March. In short, Time Warner Cable says the rights it already obtained from Viacom entitle it to distribute the content in t...

Larry Page took the wheel as Google's CEO this week, and he's already shaking things up. On Thursday, Page reportedly placed key executives in charge of individual business units, indicating he wanted to simplify product and engineering structures with one executive leading each functional group. Th...

Salesforce.com is on a buying binge as it attempts to build on its extraordinary sales momentum and broaden its market penetration within existing customer organizations and among new organizations. Since the end of last year, Salesforce.com has acquired five companies starting with Heroku and Etact...